meat0918:If someone is going on about "toxins" or "toxics" or "unnatural" whatever in your food, turn your bullshiat detection device up a few notches, because they are probably about to sell you something.

hardinparamedic:meat0918: If someone is going on about "toxins" or "toxics" or "unnatural" whatever in your food, turn your bullshiat detection device up a few notches, because they are probably about to sell you something.

If you RTFA, that's what this article is basically saying.

I read the whole thing, so think of it as the TLDR version (which I forgot to put in my post).

I've had people trying to tell me the gluten in ancient wheat is different than the gluten in modern wheat, yet a seed catalog I get that sells "ancient" varieties of wheat (there is money to be made after all) that cautions very strongly that the wheat still has gluten in it.

meat0918:hardinparamedic: meat0918: If someone is going on about "toxins" or "toxics" or "unnatural" whatever in your food, turn your bullshiat detection device up a few notches, because they are probably about to sell you something.

If you RTFA, that's what this article is basically saying.

I read the whole thing, so think of it as the TLDR version (which I forgot to put in my post).

I've had people trying to tell me the gluten in ancient wheat is different than the gluten in modern wheat, yet a seed catalog I get that sells "ancient" varieties of wheat (there is money to be made after all) that cautions very strongly that the wheat still has gluten in it.

The steel made in ancient Egypt is different than the steel made today. It's a fact. Just look at the pyramids. TMYK.

meat0918:hardinparamedic: meat0918: If someone is going on about "toxins" or "toxics" or "unnatural" whatever in your food, turn your bullshiat detection device up a few notches, because they are probably about to sell you something.

If you RTFA, that's what this article is basically saying.

I read the whole thing, so think of it as the TLDR version (which I forgot to put in my post).

I've had people trying to tell me the gluten in ancient wheat is different than the gluten in modern wheat, yet a seed catalog I get that sells "ancient" varieties of wheat (there is money to be made after all) that cautions very strongly that the wheat still has gluten in it.

It's because the ancient astronauts brought glutenic mutagens with them from Tralfamadore.

ciberido:meat0918: hardinparamedic: meat0918: If someone is going on about "toxins" or "toxics" or "unnatural" whatever in your food, turn your bullshiat detection device up a few notches, because they are probably about to sell you something.

If you RTFA, that's what this article is basically saying.

I read the whole thing, so think of it as the TLDR version (which I forgot to put in my post).

I've had people trying to tell me the gluten in ancient wheat is different than the gluten in modern wheat, yet a seed catalog I get that sells "ancient" varieties of wheat (there is money to be made after all) that cautions very strongly that the wheat still has gluten in it.

It's because the ancient astronauts brought glutenic mutagens with them from Tralfamadore.

meat0918:ciberido: meat0918: hardinparamedic: meat0918: If someone is going on about "toxins" or "toxics" or "unnatural" whatever in your food, turn your bullshiat detection device up a few notches, because they are probably about to sell you something.

If you RTFA, that's what this article is basically saying.

I read the whole thing, so think of it as the TLDR version (which I forgot to put in my post).

I've had people trying to tell me the gluten in ancient wheat is different than the gluten in modern wheat, yet a seed catalog I get that sells "ancient" varieties of wheat (there is money to be made after all) that cautions very strongly that the wheat still has gluten in it.

It's because the ancient astronauts brought glutenic mutagens with them from Tralfamadore.

true story: for years and years, i never realized that the dog was trying to spell the word "food." honestly, i thought the word "fud" was some slang term for a bar, like a pub or something. i still thought the comic was funny even though i completely misunderstood part of the joke.

brimed03:ikanreed: Yep, the human brain didn't evolve in a world with the EPA.

Sigh, I'll bite.

Gee, I wonder if the ancient Romans wish they'd had an EPA. Of course, we'd have to ask them *before* they went mad and died of lead poisoning.

"Stupid EPA, always trying to protect us from ourselves. Furrdom! Raats! Down with the stoopid gubbimt. Now... whaar the hell is mah DDT."

Yeah, that didn't happen. Lead plumbing caused higher lead levels in Roman water than what we have today, but the levels were still low enough not to cause illness. Rome fell apart because of income inequality and corrupt government.

brimed03:ikanreed: Yep, the human brain didn't evolve in a world with the EPA.

Sigh, I'll bite.

Gee, I wonder if the ancient Romans wish they'd had an EPA. Of course, we'd have to ask them *before* they went mad and died of lead poisoning.

"Stupid EPA, always trying to protect us from ourselves. Furrdom! Raats! Down with the stoopid gubbimt. Now... whaar the hell is mah DDT."

I mean our neurologically determined behaviors are not ones that account for widespread socialized food safety protection. I certainly wasn't implying that because we evolved in a world without the EPA, we shouldn't have one. Also: I think I meant FDA, but wasn't really alert enough to catch my mistake.

In other news, most people would rather be told how the world is by "experts" than to try and work it out for themselves, and in case of conflict between experts on a particular topic, believe the one that most closely aligns with the worldview they've been suckling most.

On the whole, people are empty computers ready to be programmed by those that speak their language. Sadly, few are ever programmed with a robust scepticism app.